The less harmful alternative – legal in London but a criminal offence in Hong Kong In Asia as in the rest of the world, there is a deep division of opinion about e-cigarettes. In many countries they are banned but widely available; bans are almost certainly there to protect governments
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A top British specialist has endorsed the findings of a new report that shows the supposed “dangers” of using e-cigarettes are overrated because of bad science in the research methods previously used. Professor Peter Hajek, director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Barts and The London School of Medicine
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New Zealand will regulate for full retail adult availability of new nicotine products. Bowing to public demand – and acknowledging it as the driver for change – the government is going ahead with legalising vaping despite the proximity of a general election later this year. In a statement, Associate Health
Read MoreH has been resident in Asia for more than 30 years. For nearly 15 years he was managing editor and co-publisher of the leading publication for the region’s tobacco industry, where he witnessed first hand the enormous changes sweeping the tobacco regulatory environment throughout Asia and the constant erosion of
Read Morefactasia co-founder Heneage Mitchell at COP8 FCTC, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2018
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